Chapter Frontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire

The aim of this article is to analyse the infrastructural investments made by the Franks to pacify Saxony, and to secure the control of the Elbe River territories. I will mostly use the written sources of the Carolingian era that described, in various forms, the construction of new infrastructures a...

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Autore principale:	Franzoni, Marco
Natura:	Online
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	Firenze University Press 2025
Soggetti:	Middle Ages 8th-9th centuries Saxon Frontier Carolingian Empire Danevirke Franks Slavs Danes Saxons fortresse ditches walls thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
Accesso online:	ONIX_20241220_9791221504163_378
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